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Sebastian Karcher is the Director of the Qualitative Data Repository, Director of the Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry, and Research Associate Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. His main research interests are in research transparency, management and curation of qualitative data, and the interaction of technology and scholarship. He is an active contributor to several scholarly open source projects, including Zotero and the Citation Style Language, and has taught widely on digital technology and data management. Sebastian’s work has been published widely across traditional disciplinary lines, including in social science, health science, and information science journals. He is an associate editor of the American Political Science Review and a member of Datacite’s technical steering group. Sebastian’s work has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Sloan Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation.